NEW YORK CITY—National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $25,000 to A.R.T./New York Member Services. Art Works is the Arts Endowment’s principal grantmaking program. The agency received 1,592 Art Works applications for this round of grantmaking, and will award 977 grants in this category.

“These awards, reaching every corner of the United States, are a testament to the artistic richness and diversity in our country,” said Mary Anne Carter, acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. “Organizations such as A.R.T./New York are giving people in their community the opportunity to learn, create, and be inspired.”

A.R.T./New York's Member Services provide our more than 405 New York City-based nonprofit theatre member companies with the resources they need to build more sustainable companies and continue producing their diverse and innovative work for the American theatrical canon. Our services include free professional development workshops, long-term consultancies with industry experts, peer-to-peer roundtables, an annual internship fair that offers staffing support, and a growing suite of diversity, equity, and inclusion programming.

"There are thousands of organizations that exist solely because of their first grant from the NEA. A.R.T./New York is a proud member of this group and we are so grateful for their continued support of our work," said Ginny Louloudes, Executive Director of A.R.T./New York.

For more information on this National Endowment for the Arts grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.